@wayword My cats piss in my office but pee in other rooms. 😉

Dutch is so weird. We add ‘je’ to a word as a diminutive, to make a concept smaller. ‘Stuk’ is piece, ‘stukje’ is small piece. So far so good.

But see the picture. It’s a peanut butter label that says that the jar contains ‘grote stukjes’, so: large small pieces.

Must be close to impossible to learn as a second language.

#dutch #language #netherlands #weird

New episode! https://waywordradio.org/hot-gossip/ Gossip's many names, John Donne's love poems, Murphy's Law's name origins, organizing books, rizz, potch in tuchis, conkerbell, saying help like hope, sweet tea vs. unsweet tea, work brickle, collywobbles, a patience-testing puzzle, and more!

@BurntUmberAK @grantbarrett We'll do our best!

@benfulton @grammargirl Yes! See this blog entry from the fellow tasked with sorting and cataloging the collection: https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/02/08/unpacking-the-kripke-collection/

The fascinating story of the largest private dictionary collection in North America, in two parts. 1) Its collector, Madeleine Kripke: https://archive.is/20230207122217/https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-mistress-of-slang 2) Unpacking its treasures: https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/02/08/unpacking-the-kripke-collection/

@matthew @piquant00 Just to be clear: while "beck" is indeed a shortening of "beckon," the phrase isn't and was never "beckon call." It is and was always "beck and call." Michael Quinion at World Wide Words has a great entry on it https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bec1.htm and we talked about it on the radio show here https://www.waywordradio.org/beck-and-call/

We need a word for the feeling of missing animals from a time before humans even existed.

On “enshittify” and “enshittification,” coined recently by @doctorow@twitter.piriklub.eu to fill a lexical gap. My new post for the Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/enshittification/

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#neologisms
#scatology

@pmb @bookstodon Thank you! We appreciate it! Here are some of our book recommendation segments over the years: https://www.waywordradio.org/category/book-recommendations/

@Freedom2B Sock Water! https://www.waywordradio.org/agua-de-calcetin/

The latest episode is in your ballpark! https://waywordradio.org/in-the-ballpark/ Jinx, banging out someone on their last day of work, zoris, agua de calcetín, groundhogs making coffee, marplot, a nerdy game show-inspired puzzle, duck duck gray duck, knowing from Adam's off ox, and lots more.

The latest new episode isn't the pits! https://waywordradio.org/old-college-try/ Human-like computer-generated text, inside baseball, have beef, cut someone's water off, Carolina as Cackalacky, parasol, kiss-me-quick, dippity-do, a common bonds word game, and lots more.

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This year, I published #TheBlackAgendaBook.

I'm really proud of it and all the voices that spoke to issues impacting our country. I'm also indebted to so many for a successful debut. I want to thank anywhere that loans out or sells books, my conversation partners, and all the readers.

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@wayword Some more data on call in vs. call out: I’ve lived in Charleston, SC for 18 years now (grew up in Ohio but most of my working life has been here in SC) and I’ve personally only ever used call out. Sometimes I say call out sick. Furthermore, I’ve mostly noticed my fellow coworkers using call out. And the management actually uses it as a noun; as in, “we have two call-outs today.”

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